Grant: Health System Impact Fellowships - PostDoc Central Canada 2 year

As a leading humanitarian organization, the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) is engaged in strengthening health systems and providing health services in emergencies through capacity building, organizational support and long term solutions for healthy and resilient communities both in Canada and globally. The CRC has identified the need to support evidence informed decision-making as a major organizational priority that has senior leadership buy-in and support. Specifically, CRC has identified the clear need for context-specific real-time evidence to respond to specific needs (e.g., Epidemic Prevention and Control (EPC) measures in Long term care facilities) and the need to build capacity among CRC practitioners to find and use research evidence to address pressing questions in short periods of time. My fellowship will help CRC to achieve their goals by developing and pilot testing a reliable mechanism to provide real-time evidence synthesis and by building capacity among humanitarian aid workers before an emergency strikes to support evidence informed decision-making during a crises.